SINCE the 8 March elections, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been dubbed a prime minister-in-waiting by many. This never happened with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Lim Kit Siang, Datuk Fadzil Noor, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, or Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah. Such recognition shows how far Malaysia has come in readying for an end to […]
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Rude MPs
By Hafidz Baharom(© Anouk Stricher / Dreamstime) JUST how courteous are Malaysians when speaking to one another? There’s no problem when I speak with my own friends, even if we do use a few choice words against one another every now and then. Then again, we’re not exactly elected representatives gathered in the august halls of Parliament. […]
Women’s caucus to fight for 30% quota
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: A caucus of women members of parliament (MPs) wants the 30% quota for women to hold high posts in the public and private sectors to be implemented immediately. Its chairperson, Nancy Shukri, said this would be the main cause of struggle for the country’s 23 women MPs, besides the problem […]
Local councillors need not be professionals
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: The Housing and Local Government Ministry has no plans to make a ruling that only professionals can be appointed as local authority councillors. The ministry also would not stop state governments from appointing only professionals to sit in local authority councils, Deputy Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin told the Dewan Rakyat […]
Karpal wants Zaki to step down within 7 days
KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Nov 2008: DAP chairman Karpal Singh has demanded that Chief Justice Tan Sri Zaki Azmi step down within seven days over Zaki’s statement on corruption among court staff when he was a lawyer in 1987. He said Zaki should not deny that he had uttered the words which were reported in the […]
You don’t mess with the Dewan!
By Zedeck Siew(© Leaf / Dreamstime) ONE early morning two weeks ago, a group of 15 citizens from a Petaling Jaya constituency filed into a chartered bus. They carried blazers and jackets in varying states of crinkled-ness. Almost all were more alert than any amount of coffee could explain. James, an electrician by profession, had a digital […]
Nazri regrets statement on sacked judges
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Nov 2008: All six judges involved in the 1988 judicial crisis were actually sacked and paid their pensions on compassionate grounds, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said. He said the matter came to his knowledge upon his personal investigation, which revealed there was a letter […]
